Dont hold back or take it slow?

~PrototypeK Jun 15, 2012 Student Digital Artist

So when you guys started out drawing did you guys draw whatever was in your mind regardless of your skill, or did you take it slow and started off drawing small stuff. For example when drawing humans, did you learn and practice heads, then the body, then hands etc. Or did you just start drawing full body poses?

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*roguemina Jun 18, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I draw things that interest me at the moment - It could be a portrait of my favorite character or an epic fight scene. I find that this helps me actively look for tutorials because I feel that I have a vision in mind that I want to attain in the immediate future and it keeps me focused/interested because I look forward to the result.

When I sketch,that's when I try to do just hands, just feet, etc. Generally just something quick. <- this rarely happens to me though but I've been wanting to do this. lol

=TsukiToTaiou Jun 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

When I first started I just drew whatever, but I began improving faster when I decided to focus on improving my drawings one aspect at a time. But there was always improvement, it was just slow.

*LadyKuki Jun 16, 2012 Student General Artist

I just drew whatever I liked. And still do. With a little bit of new stuff here and there. I mostly copied screenshots and artwork from video games and cartoons.

~OpenParenthesis Jun 16, 2012

I did a little of both--I drew whatever was in my head, but when I started to draw more (a couple years ago) I just drew heads. Now I'm trying to branch out, and I wish I'd always drawn full body pictures c: It helps everything connect and flow if you practice everything at once, I think.

~Glori305 Jun 16, 2012

Yes. And no.

I started drawing so long ago, I can never remember a time when my mother did not have a picture of mine on the fridge. And then I drew whatever I liked.

I took several different art classes, which made me do things like still lifes, portratits, and full body drawings.

If you are looking to draw people, I would start with full bodies, and then work on the details. If you focus on the individual parts first, it is harder to get perspective down. Doing both full body, and focused body part studies at the same time also works.

But it is seriously easiest to start with other things, and move to humans. They are very complex, and since we have a instinctive grasp on "human" and "not human" one of the easiest to mess up noticably. People will not notice the same mistakes made in the painting of a teacup that that notice in a painting of a person.

~PrototypeK Jun 16, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I see. Thanks for the comment, it realllly helps. And its true, everytime I screw up something when drawing a human, it's 100% noticeable.

*ISolitude Jun 16, 2012

Draw whatever comes to your head

You might not have the technical skills yet, but you can redraw it again some other day.

If you limited yourself to drawing the head until you mastered it, then the legs, or whatever, you'd get bored fast.